Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNothing Good Starts at the Top
Episode 135
Speaking at the recent Mises Institute Supporters Summit, Mark Thornton argues that lasting reform comes from the bottom up, not from political edict. Drawing on Hayek’s “worst get to the top” insigh…
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Reading Markets the Austrian Way
Episode 135
Mark Thornton reviews David Howden’s data-driven guide to long-horizon investing in commodities, useful even for Austrians wary of statistics. Mark explains how the book’s method ranks assets by rela…
Published on 1 week, 1 day ago
Silver’s $50 Moment
Episode 135
Mark Thornton shares a timely conversation from the Liberty & Finance podcast with Elijah K. Johnson. Mark explains why $50 silver is a psychological barrier, and how decades of tech shifts, by-produ…
Published on 2 weeks ago
Monetary Metals 101: How Gold and Silver Work in a Free Market
Episode 135
Mark Thornton lays the groundwork for understanding gold and silver before politics gets involved. Mark explains why monetary metals emerge from market “evolution,” how their non-consumptive use crea…
Published on 3 weeks ago
Vitamins vs. Technocracy: Lessons from MK-7
Episode 135
On the latest episode of Minor Issues, Mark Thornton uses vitamin K2 (MK-7) as a case study in how technocracy goes wrong, elevating cutting-edge findings and bureaucracy over experience, incentives,…
Published on 4 weeks ago
Silver, Subsidies, and the Green Paradox
Episode 135
On the latest episode of Minor Issues, Mark Thornton critiques “green” mandates through the seen–unseen lens, contrasting them with conservation grounded in property rights and price signals. He spot…
Published on 1 month ago
On the Hyperinflation On-Ramp
Episode 135
Mark Thornton returns as a guest on the Liberty and Finance podcast with Dunagun Kaiser to walk through Ludwig von Mises’s three stages of inflation, and why today’s mix of towering deficits and mone…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Black Swans, Sequestered Capital, and the Next Bust
Episode 135
On the latest episode of Minor Issues, Mark Thornton argues that “black swans” aren’t root causes but announcement effects of imbalances created by the Fed’s cheap-credit booms. He highlights Ball St…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Road to Hyperinflation
Episode 135
On the latest episode of Minor Issues, Mark Thornton takes a provocative look at America’s path toward hyperinflation. Mark walks through Mises’s three stages of inflation, contending the US is movin…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Hans Hoppe is No Revolutionary
Episode 135
Is Hans-Hermann Hoppe a firebrand revolutionary, or something very different? On this episode of Minor Issues, Mark Thornton traces Hoppe’s American debut in 1986 and follows the controversies that l…
Published on 2 months ago